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Indiana county sued by arrested Occupy protesters
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Two Occupy protesters filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday against sheriff's officers in a central Indiana county who they say shoved one of them roughly into a wall and arrested them as they tried to enter the county courthouse....
Tags: Police Arrests, Protest, Litigation, Justice System, Laws
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Swearing charge dropped in strange Berrien County case
South Bend TribuneST. JOSEPH — Different judge, different outcome. That’s what it boiled down to Friday in Berrien County Trial Court in St. Joseph where Judge Charles LaSata, citing a technicality, dismissed a contempt of court charge against a woman who...Tags: Justice System, Prisons, Judges, Trials, Crime, Law and Justice
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Another judge to review woman's swearing case
South Bend TribuneNILES -- A South Bend-area woman will have to wait a little while longer to see what will happen with the criminal contempt charge brought against her for swearing inside Niles South County Courthouse in early December. Larue Ford, 49, appeared with her...Tags: U.S. Supreme Court, Justice System, Clarence Thomas, Judges, Lawyers
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UPDATE: Cursing woman in Berrien County Jail for 10 days released
NILES, Mich. (AP) — A woman who was kept in Berrien County jail for 10 days after cursing in the county clerk's office at the courthouse has been released after a second judge intervened. LaRue Ford tells TV station WOOD (http://bit.ly/RWqgL7 )...
Tags: Civil Rights, Justice and Rights, Justice System, Judges, Prisons
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Judge: Ind. 'indifferent' to mentally ill inmates
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana has been "deliberately indifferent" to the plight of mentally ill inmates in its state prisons, who amount to nearly a quarter of the system's population, a federal judge has ruled. U.S. District Judge Tanya Walton...
Tags: Chemical Industry, Mental Illness, Mental Health, Psychiatry, Pharmaceuticals
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Woman jailed for cursing in Berrien County Clerk's Office
NILES – If you're ever at the Berrien County Courthouse in Niles, you may want to watch your language. One woman's cursing landed her in jail for contempt of court -- even though she wasn't in a courtroom. LaRue Ford, 49, of northwest Indiana...
Tags: Criminals, Justice System, Judges, Prisons, Crime, Law and Justice
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Utah city settles with man who flipped off officer
OREM, Utah (AP) — A Utah city has reached a settlement in a claim that alleged a police officer violated a man's constitutional rights by pulling him over for giving the officer the middle finger. The American Civil Liberties Union of Utah worked... -
Border Patrol under scrutiny for deadly force
NOGALES, Ariz. (AP) — A pair of Mexican drug smugglers in camouflage pants, bundles of marijuana strapped to their backs, scaled a 25 foot-high fence in the middle of the night, slipped quietly into the United States and dashed into the darkness....
Tags: Government, FBI, Mexico, Civil Rights, Justice and Rights
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Court blocks Indiana defunding of Planned Parenthood
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana stepped between women and their physicians when it enacted a law that blocked Medicaid funds for Planned Parenthood just because the organization provides abortions, a federal appeals court ruled Tuesday. The 7th U.S....
Tags: Government, Civil Rights, Health Insurance, Human Rights, Health Treatments
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Groups cite youth confinement in Berrien County and 6 other Mich. counties
DETROIT (AP) — Two prisoner rights advocacy groups that criticize the use of solitary confinement for juveniles say they've uncovered at least 15 people in seven Michigan counties, including Berrien, who've undergone the process. Human Rights Watch...Tags: Prisons
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2 groups support Catholic school teacher fired over in vitro
FORT WAYNE, Ind. (AP) — Two national groups are supporting a discrimination lawsuit filed by a former Indiana parochial school teacher who claims she was fired for trying to get pregnant through in vitro fertilization. The American Society for...
Tags: Employment Opportunities, Vincent de Paul, Discrimination, Christianity, Civil Rights
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Woman sues Indiana BMV ... 'You took too long to suspend my license'
Associated Press ReportINDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A Bloomington woman whose license was supposed to be suspended in 2004 for repeatedly driving without a license says Indiana's Bureau of Motor Vehicles didn't take action for eight years, waiting until she had obtained a...Tags: Justice System, Judges, Crime, Law and Justice
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